Discover Pre-Kindergarten at NEISD
Open the door to a stimulating environment where your child learns to love learning. Your child may be eligible to attend for free; others pay a tuition that may be less than your daycare.
Your four-year-old child’s brain has been making 1,000,000 connections every second since birth. The sights, sounds, curiosity, and physical activity that children experience before the age of five contribute to 90% of a child’s brain development.
Pre-K is where your child discovers and practices the social, emotional, and academic skills needed to succeed in the coming grades.
You will find Pre-K classes at 34 North East ISD elementary schools, including Pre-K Academy at West Avenue. As you read through these pages you will recognize that creativity, imagination, and curiosity are the right combination for your enthusiastic, curious 3 and 4-year-old.
Two Ways to Participate in Pre-K at NEISD
Getting ready for Pre-Kindergarten
Pre-K is a place where curiosity, discovery, and learning happen everyday through curriculum based play and hands on activities.
In Pre-Kindergarten, we will:
- Identify our feelings/emotions, care for others, play with our friends, and solve problems (Social/Emotional)
- Engage in conversations, learn new words, discuss topics with details (Language/Communication)
- Learn letters/sounds, rhyme words, learn information from books, write our name, and write our ideas (Reading/Writing)
- Count aloud to 20, count objects, recognize numerals 0-9, create patterns, and learn about shapes (Math)
- Use our senses and tools to learn about objects and observe and describe motion, energy, plants, animals, and weather (Science)
- Learn about similarities and differences in our families and roles and relationships in the community (Social Studies)
- Participate in music, art and drama activities with our friends (Art)
- Balance on one foot, hop, jump, button, zip, and draw (Physical Development)
- Use technology to create and express their ideas (Technology Applications)
Tips for Summer Learning
- Read aloud with your child every day for 15 minutes. Discuss the story or information with your child. Make a list of new words.
- Encourage your child to write and draw pictures. It’s ok if they are scribbling, they are learning that print has meaning.
- Count! Count! Count! Count cans in the pantry, grapes in their snack, socks in the laundry basket, or crayons in the box.
NEISD Prekindergarten Curriculum
The North East ISD Prekindergarten program is based on the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (pdf).
"The Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines have been developed to provide guidance for planning quality learning experiences for all children three to five years of age. They are based on current knowledge of theory and scientific research about how children develop and learn. The guidelines reflect the growing consensus among early childhood professional organizations that a greater emphasis should be placed on young children’s conceptual learning, acquisition of basic skills, and participation in meaningful, relationship-based learning experiences."(TX PREK Guidelines, Comprehensive Guide, pg. 3)
The guidelines describe specific learning outcomes for children in the following areas:
I. Social Emotional
II. Language and Communication
III. Emergent Literacy Reading
IV. Emergent Literacy Writing
V. Mathematics
VI. Science
VII. Social Studies
VIII. Fine Arts
IX. Physical Development
X. Technology
NEISD Prekindergarten Adopted Curriculum: SAVVAS Three Cheers for PreK/ Uno,dos, tres ¡PreKínder!
Campus Programs
Campus | Bilingual Instruction Opportunities | KIN After-School Program Available |
---|---|---|
Bulverde Creek Elementary | No | No |
Camelot Elementary | No | Yes |
Canyon Ridge Elementary | No | No |
Cibolo Green Elementary | No | No |
Coker Elementary* | Yes | No |
East Terrell Hills Elementary* | Yes | Yes |
El Dorado Elementary* | Yes | No |
Encino Park Elementary | No | No |
Fox Run Elementary | No | No |
Hardy Oak Elementary | No | No |
Harmony Hills Elementary | No | No |
Huebner Elementary | No | No |
Larkspur Elementary* | Yes | Yes |
Las Lomas Elementary | No | No |
Longs Creek Elementary | No | No |
Northern Hills Elementary* | Yes | No |
Oak Grove Elementary | No | No |
Oak Meadow Elementary | No | No |
Pre-K Academy at West Avenue* | Yes | No |
Redland Oaks Elementary | No | No |
Regency Place Elementary* | Yes | No |
Roan Forest Elementary* | Yes | No |
Royal Ridge Elementary | Yes | No |
Serna Elementary | No | Yes |
Stahl Elementary* | Yes | No |
Stone Oak Elementary* | Yes | No |
Thousand Oaks Elementary | No | No |
Tuscany Heights | No | No |
Vineyard Ranch Elementary* | Yes | No |
Walzem Elementary* | Yes | Yes |
Wetmore Elementary | No | No |
Wilderness Oak Elementary | No | No |
Windcrest Elementary | No | No |
Woodstone Elementary | No | No |